The Cure Archives — Page 17 of 23

The Cure are apparently releasing ‘Greatest Hits’ and ‘Acoustic Hits’ vinyl picture discs for Record Store Day

For this year’s Record Store Day The Cure appear to be releasing a pair of remastered vinyl picture-disc reissues. The records are 2001’s Greatest Hits compilation and a standalone issue of the Acoustic Hits disc…

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When Joy Division Opened for The Cure

On March 4th, 1979, The Cure selected Joy Division to open for them during a series of Sunday gigs at The Marquee Club in London. Another band selected by Robert…

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David Bowie | Earthling

On February 3rd, 1997, the starman David Bowie had just turned 50 years old. And Less than a month following his birthday, the iconic artist released his twentieth studio album…

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On this Day in 1976 Malice—The Band That Would Become The Cure—Played Their First Gig

In October of 2016, Lol Tolhurst released his book Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys which included an intimate recounting of The Cure’s early days. The band in its very first…

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Watch a 1987 Interview with Robert Smith Discussing The Cure’s Music Videos

After returning from the North American leg of The Kissing Tour, Cure frontman Robert Smith sat down for a charming and delightful interview with Night Network host Paul Thompson. The…

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Bands

Berlin-based dark Post-Punk band Klez.e premiere their video for “Flammen”

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]erlin-based dark Post-Punk band Klez.e have premiered their video for the track Flammen which means “flame” auf Englisch. The track comes off of their upcoming album, Desintegration—which is a word play…

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The Cure’s First Trip to America | Listen to Their Entire First US Concert and More!

In mid April of 1980, The Cure embarked on a 6 date North East US tour—this was the “Cult Heroes” first trip ever to the states—supporting their second album Seventeen Seconds and the…

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Desperate Journalist premiere their video for “Hollow” off of their second LP “Grow Up”—due out in March 2017

[dropcap]There’s[/dropcap] is something to be said about a band’s influnces if they name themselves after a Cure song that refers to Manchester journalist Paul Morely’s infamous negative review of Three…

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Caroline Crawley of Shelleyan Orphan and This Mortal Coil has passed away

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]adly—Caroline Crawley, who was one half the duo Shelleyan Orphan—has passed away after a long illness. No further details of her death and illness have been made public. Crawley formed…

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Listen: Scarlett Johansson and her new band, Sugar for Sugar perform cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”

[dropcap]Scarlett[/dropcap] Johansson sang some karaoke in Lost In Translation, recorded a solo album of Tom Waits covers, and then later fronted her now-defunct band with Este Haim—and she hasn’t given up on…

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